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Author Kittay, Eva Feder

Title Love's Labor : Essays on Women, Equality and Dependency
Edition 2nd ed
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (235 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction to the Second Edition; Introduction to the First Edition; PART I: Love's Labor: The Requirements of Dependency; 1. Relationships of Dependency and Equality; Reflections on Being a Mother's Child; Dependency in the Human Condition; 2. Vulnerability and the Moral Nature of Dependency Relations; The Transparent Self of the Dependency Worker; Moral Obligations of Dependency Workers and an Ethics of Care; Moral Obligations to the Dependency Worker; PART II: Political Liberalism and Human Dependency
IntroductionDependency as a Criterion of Adequacy; The Role of Equality and Equality's Presuppositions; The Arguments in Outline; 3. The Presuppositions of Equality; The Circumstances of Justice for a Well-Ordered Society; The Idealization That "All Citizens Are Fully Cooperating Members of Society"; Free Persons Are Self-Originating Sources of Valid Claims; 4. The Benefits and Burdens of Social Cooperation; The Two Powers of aMoral Person and the Index of Primary Goods; The Public Conception of Social Cooperation; Conclusion: The Principles of Justice and Dependency Concerns
PART III: Some Mother's ChildIntroduction; 5. Policy and a Public Ethic of Care; Welfare De-Form; Justifications of Welfare; The Family and Medical Leave Act; Welfare Re-Formed: A Vision of Welfare Based on Doulia; 6. "Not My Way, Sesha. Your Way. Slowly." A Personal Narrative; A Child is Born; Portrait of Sesha at Twenty-Seven; On the Very Possibility of Mothering and the Challenge of the Severely Disabled Child; Mothering Distributed: The Work of Dependency Care; Alternative Routes-Routes Not Taken; 7. Maternal Thinking with a Difference; Preservative Love; Socialization for Acceptance
Fostering DevelopmentCare for Disability and Social Justice; Lessons for the Theoretician; Afterword; References; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Caregivers.
Caregivers -- Social conditions
Caregivers -- Government policy
Caregivers
Caregivers -- Government policy
Form Electronic book
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